Quotes from Piet Mondrian

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.Piet MondrianThe Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.

Many appreciate in my former work just what I did not want to express, but which was produced by an incapacity to express what I wanted to express - dynamic movement in equilibrium. But a continuous struggle for this statement brought me nearer. This is what I am attempting in 'Victory Boogie Woogie.'

Curves are so emotional.

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.